Monday, 14 September 2009

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling down the river..

Just a little comical interlude.. I do love it here but the contrast is always fun :)

You know your living on the Africa Mercy when:

- Your messages get blue tacked to your door
- Your house moves a couple hundred meters and back again in a weekend
- When you have the same curfew time you had in high school
- You wake up thinking your alarms going off, only to discover it was 3 cabins down.
- You talk about ‘amounts of cabins down’
- You have to choose between: breakfast and lunch or sleep in at weekends
- 2 minutes is considered a normal shower time
- You finish the teaching day with: “see you at dinner”
- You share your living room with 400 people- You are privileged because you are a driver.
- Flashing your knees is exciting
- You don’t answer to Mum or Dad but to the captain and the security officer...
- Your commute lasts less than 30 seconds
- The toilet flushing is a luxury
- The comment ‘hit the deck’ can actually be taken literally...
- You discover The English language is not universal as you thought
- Your phone number consists out of 4 digits
- You meet someone for the first time and start with asking: “how long have you commited for?”
- You live with a chaplain
- Your don’t have a kitchen but a galley
- You can hold a full school assembly in a single classroom
- milk is spelt with a CH

Wonderfully unique..


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2 comments:

  1. Lesley-Ann15 September 2009 at 13:03

    : )

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  2. natalie16 September 2009 at 20:14

    instructions on preparing to live on a ship...
    --invite 50 people from your church and 50 people each from 3-4 other churches to hang out in your home for the weekend.
    --sleep on a camping cot in your closet
    --live out of a large suitcase for a month
    --run your vacuum continuously in the room next to your bedroom
    --replace all your doors with curtains and ask your neighbors to pop in at any time without notice

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